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Boston-based EQORE has secured $1.7 million in seed funding from MassCEC, Henry Ford III, and Jonathan Kraft to expand behind-the-meter battery storage for industrial and commercial facilities, helping businesses cut soaring electricity costs and support grid stability.
AI-sourcing startup Cavela secured $6.6M in seed funding to help e-commerce brands streamline product manufacturing with autonomous AI agents that find global suppliers, negotiate quotes, and reduce costs despite tariff volatility.
San Francisco-based Numeric secures $51M Series B for AI-powered finance platform expansion. New funding supports launch of cash management product and growth beyond close management.
Luma AI has raised $900M in Series C funding led by HUMAIN to accelerate its multimodal world models, with Saudi Arabia’s 2GW Project Halo supercluster set to power the company’s next stage of large-scale AI training.
Nuevo León has clarified the source of the US $1B data center investment after Nvidia denied involvement. The funding will come from Mexican AI firm Cipre Holdings, which plans to build the state’s first green AI data center.
AI biotech startup Profluent has secured $106M to accelerate its frontier protein design models and expand its next-gen biologics pipeline, backed by Altimeter Capital and Bezos Expeditions in a major push toward programmable biology.
AI accounting startup Maxima has raised $41 million in a Kleiner Perkins and Redpoint-backed round, pushing its valuation to $143M. The year-old San Mateo firm is gaining traction with its AI-first platform that automates enterprise accounting workflows.
Anthropic is set to raise $15 billion from Microsoft and Nvidia while committing $30 billion to Microsoft Azure in a landmark AI-cloud deal that strengthens its model development pipeline and reshapes the global AI infrastructure race.
NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has called for a public boycott of Starbucks as thousands of baristas across the U.S. begin an open-ended strike over stalled contract talks, staffing shortages and claims of unfair labour practices during the chain’s busiest season.
Project Prometheus, the secretive AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, has launched with roughly $6.2 billion in reported funding and a team recruited from OpenAI, DeepMind and Meta. The company says it will apply large-scale AI to engineering, manufacturing and aerospace.
Orlando-based Gen-Z rapper Maxon Margiela, only 21, is reported to have died by suspected suicide, sparking an outpouring of grief and renewed calls for mental health support in the music community.
As Nvidia approaches its Nov. 19 earnings report, investors weigh a record $5 trillion market valuation against high expectations for Blackwell GPU sales and data‑center demand. A beat could extend the AI rally; a miss may trigger sharp selling and wider market volatility.